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Record ID: WAW-20A592
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Bronze Age date (1500 - 800 BC) socketed spear (spearhead): The copper alloy spearhead consists of the upper portion of the spear, being before the socket starts. In plan the spearhead is an elongated sub-trapezoid as the tip is missing. Both these breaks are not recent. There are traces of the blade facets but these are heavily abraded, therefore the spear blades cutting edges have been lost. The overall shape of the blade can be possibly ascribed to being leaf-shaped. The spearhead fragment is broadly triangular in plan and in section a sub-lozenge. There are no visibl…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WAW-5B6782
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy axe. The blade portion of the axe remains with the broken edge traversing the axe and revealing the socket. The blade cutting edge is asymmetrical, rounded and blunt, and is convex in plan. The blade has slightly flared sides. The break is not recent as the patina on the break matches that on the surface of the axe. The surface of the axe is abraded, but has patches of a well developed dark green/brown patina. From the cutting edge to the broken edge it measures 41mm, and from the corner of the blade to the broken edge it measures 15.12mm.
The axe i…
Created on: Monday 29th October 2007
Last updated: Saturday 18th March 2017
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